COMING SOON
Out this week
* Albums
- Smile by Katy Perry: The American pop singer’s sixth album; follows 2017’s Witness; includes the singles ‘Never Really Over’, ‘Harleys in Hawaii’, ‘Daisies’, ‘Smile’, and ‘What Makes a Woman’.
- Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum by Seether: The eighth album by the South African rock band, the follow-up to Poison the Parish (2017); title translates to “if you want peace, prepare for war”; led by the single ‘Dangerous’.
Movies
- Bill & Ted Face the Music (starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Samara Weaving) – comedy, third instalment in the Bill & Ted series; after receiving a message from the future, Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves) must create a song to save the universe.
- The Courier (starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Merab Ninidze) – historical drama about Greville Wynne; a British businessman (Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI6 as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from a Soviet agent (Ninidze).
- The New Mutants (starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga) – horror, intended as the last instalment of the X-Men film series; a group of young mutants held in a secret facility try to save themselves.
- Rogue (starring Megan Fox, Philip Winchester) – action; a mercenary’s (Fox) team gets trapped during a mission and is hunted by a lion.
Star
Armand Douglas Hammer
- Born on 28th August 1986 in Santa Monica, California, U.S.
- Has a younger brother, Viktor.
- Dropped out of school to pursue a career in acting.
- Made small guest appearances in television series before getting his breakthrough in the film The Social Network (2010).
- Has since appeared in films including J. Edgar (2011), The Lone Ranger (2013), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), and Call Me by Your Name (2017).
- Upcoming films include the mystery Death on the Nile (2020), romance Rebecca (2020), sports comedy Next Goal Wins, and thriller Dreamland.
- Married television personality Elizabeth Chambers in 2010; they separated in 2020. The couple has two children together.
Also born today: Florence Welch, LeAnn Rimes, Carly Pope, J. August Richards, Billy Boyd, David Fincher, Jennifer Coolidge, Daniel Stern, David Soul
Spotlight
Project Power
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Colson Baker, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker Allen Maldonado
Directors: Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost
Tagline: What would you risk for 5 minutes of pure power?
- Action; a former soldier (Foxx), a police officer (Gordon-Levitt), and a teenage drug dealer (Fishback) team up to stop the group that is distributing a pill that gives its taker unique superpowers for five minutes.
- Had a production budget of around $85 million.
- Has received mixed reviews; the acting and visuals have been praised, although critics have opined that the story does not make full use of the premise’s potential.
- Score composed by Joseph Trapanese.
